The Frames Behind the Games: Player's Perceptions of Prisoner's Dilemma, Chicken, Dictator, and Ultimatum Games

David Butler, Victoria Burbank and James Chisholm
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Victoria Burbank: School of Social and Cultural Studies, The University of Western Australia
James Chisholm: School of Anatomy and Human Biology, The University of Western Australia

No 10-03, Economics Discussion / Working Papers from The University of Western Australia, Department of Economics

Abstract: The tension between cooperative and competitive impulses is an eternal issue for every society. But how is this problem perceived by individual participants in the context of a behavioral games experiment? We first assess individual differences in players’ propensity to cooperate in a series of experimental games. We then use openended interviews with a subset of those players to investigate the various concepts (or ‘frames’) they used when thinking about self-interested and cooperative actions. More generally, we hope to raise awareness of player’s perceptions of experimental environments to inform both the design and interpretation of experiments and experimental data.

Keywords: Laboratory Experiment; Frames; Selfishness; Cooperation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 45 pages
Date: 2010
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Journal Article: The frames behind the games: Player's perceptions of prisoners dilemma, chicken, dictator, and ultimatum games (2011)
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